When the army and the constabulary began to arrive, with their medals and decorations hastily pinned to their pajamas, and their snickersnees drawn, I crawled into the welcome shadow of a banana plant.
On state occasions his breast was covered from shoulder to shoulder with crosses, stars, golden roses, medals and ribbons.
With his plumed hat in his hand, and his medals and decorations shining on his breast, the general spoke to her and gave her his arm, and they went up the stone steps of the Casa Morena together.
Wednesday next and three following days, the valuable Collection of Coins and Medals of the Rev.
Well, Pod walked half the way from New York and prided himself on walking, and Coonskin had won medals for sprinting: so it looked to us a huge joke, and we just brayed.
I've plenty of medals for sprinting, but if I saw a real bear I could beat all records.
Were the rules for the award of these medals read previous to their decision?
As the original rules for giving the medals were merely an order of the Council,--it would only be necessary to alter them, and then the award would agree perfectly with the laws.
ONE of the medals of His Majesty's donation for the present year was awarded to John Dalton, Esq.
When the Royal medals were added to their patronage, the past distribution of the Copley medals, furnished grounds to some of the journals to predict the future possessors of the new ones.
It has been objected to the Royal Society, that their medals have been too much confined to a certain set.
Another point on which information ought to be given in each volume, is the conditions on which the distribution of the Society's medals are made.
Honorary rewards and medals have been the feeble expressions of the sentiments of mankind towards those who have preferred the other course.
That it is the opinion of the Council, that the presentation of the medals should not be limited to British subjects.
That two medals from the same die should be struck upon each foundation; one in gold, one in silver.
After the coronation the King too had thirteen gold medals struck in honour of the Maid, which bore her device, a hand holding a sword, and the inscription, Consilio firmata Dei.
Outside the cathedral the streets were thronged with people in holiday attire, wearing leaden medalswhich bore an effigy of Jeanne.
On the whole the medals seem not to have been valued at much more than a shilling a-piece.
The coins or medals were thrown promiscuously into drawers; one drawer having twenty-four medals, was valued at £2 10s.
Did you ever see any medals or badges on their clothing which told of Boy Scout experiences?
They wore upon the sleeves of their coats medals showing that they had passed the examination as Ambulance Aids, Stalkers, Pioneers and Seamen.
On the custom of giving medals to chiefs in recognition of their leadership, see Thwaites, Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, index.
Altogether I found only two copper medals of Byzantine monasteries, which may have been lost by shepherds.
The medals hitherto discovered are all of copper, and belong for the most part to Alexandria Troas; some also are of Ilium, and of the first centuries before and after Christ.
Father wanted to get his patents to Brussels, and he's got medals for them all, but it cost a lot of money and now they are not bought.
I have just been reading about him in the paper; all his life-saving appliances have had gold medals at the exhibition.
Medals bearing Les Chatiments, Napoleon le Petit, and other legends, were offered for sale, as well as medallions and numberless other memorials of the dead.
Medals and photographs of the hero of the day were to be seen everywhere, and the behaviour of the enormous assemblage was most exemplary.
When we all come back from the wars with a paucity of limbs and a plethora of medals we can begin afresh.
Half an hour afterwards, however, he suddenly bade old Fatma bring him his company raiment with the medals and clasps of his dead sons sewn on it.
The inscriptions and medals show that he was also invested with other dignities.
Lucius Munatius Plancus, whose name is found in several inscriptions and on a rather great number of medals (see especially Orelli, Inscriptions, N.
He was a member of the Academy of medals and inscriptions, founded by Colbert in 1662, "in order to render the acts of the king immortal, by deciding the legends of the medals struck in his honor.
A scroll, at the extremities of which are two medals of George II.
The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to a very great perfection.
Defn: The art of making and striking medals and coins.
But medals are scattered about wherever he has been.
The medals not being finished, he desired me to attend to them.
Mr. Morris, during his office, being authorized to have the medals and swords executed, which had been ordered by Congress, he authorized Colonel Humphreys to take measures here for the execution.
I am in hopes Mr. Short will be able to send you the medals of General Gates, by this packet.
Mr. Short, during my absence, will avail himself of the first occasion which shall offer, of forwarding the medals to you.
The Committee vote medals and rewards to those who distinguish themselves in saving life from shipwreck.
He has won gold medals at the Pan-American Exposition, the Charleston Exposition and also at the Exposition of St. Louis.
She would seem to have been always smiling, friendly, checking with a laugh the adulation of her visitors, many of whom wore medals with her own effigy (if only one had been saved for us!
They brought her their sacred medals and rosaries to bless, and asked her a hundred questions.
The names of the winners of the Silver Medals will be printed in the February Number.
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